Tests

That title could mean many things at this moment in my life, tests in my classes, the tests of work with 30 preschoolers and the tests and life in general. But, in this posts its pregnancy tests.
Do you know how many there are? Tons! There's even a website called peeonastick.com that compares them all....betcha didn't know that!
I used to pay 20.00 each for a pregnancy test and then I realised that the ones at the Dollar Store are just as good (in fact they are what the Doctors use) I'm sure the man at the Dollar Store in Gilroy wondered what the hell I was going to do with 20 pregnancy tests. That's why I went to him, girls are nosy and ask questions - boys are not. I knew he would ring me up without the third degree.
So now I have a bathroom drawer completely full of pregnancy tests and I take one every other day (hey - I'm limiting myself to every other day instead of every day), they've been coming up positive (but that's only the hormone's left over from the shots - but it makes me feel good to see that double line), but today they have started to come up negative. Dang!.......I have 6 more days until I'm officially supposed to "test". I'm so not good at waiting, for anything.

Today's IUI

We had Intra-Uterine-Insemination this morning. We've done this before (and gotten pregnant from it) but this time we had 4 eggs and heavy medicine's so maybe it will work!
We now have to wait for 2 weeks to find out the results. We have learned after so much loss to now just let it go since it is now out of our hands. We have done all that we can in preparation, we go on as usual.
Wait, who the hell am I kidding here? We don't go on as usual...I count the days until the test. Dec.2 to be exact - but knowing me I'll start testing 3/4 days before that. I am dong my best not to get as emotionally attached this time. Let's see how that actually works out.
Love,
Becky and Mike

Eggs X 7

Well, we have 7 eggs after 5 days of hormone injections. 4 are strong and husky and 3 not so much, so we have a good shot at a pregnancy this cycle. Hopefully 3-4 will fertilize, 1-2 will implant and 1 will burrow in and stay put for about 9 months.
We;re keeping our fingers crossed for this time!
Becky

Back on the Fertility Train

Well, we've started again. We had a lovely two month break and now we are going for the big guns....or big eggs! Today was the first day of our next process, injectible medications. A three day supply (and I will need a 14 day supply) was $942.00, I almost passed out in the pharmacy when magically the pharmacist said "oh, you're "double covered" {???} your cost is $5.42! Being double covered (which I finally figured means that my insurance AND Mike's insurance covers the cost but since there is only one person receiving treatment then both insurance's cover the whole cost instead of me paying for half), saved us 935.00 in meds today and 127.00 in ultrasound costs. So, thank goodness for insurance or today's appointments would have been over $1000.00.
Now, as I sit here avoiding my homework and writing in this blog instead I am dreading that needle that I need to inject into myself before bed tonight.
On Halloween I had a couple girlfriends here and one of them did Tarot Readings (or Hocus Pocus as Mike calls it), we thought it would be fun to do on a spooky, rainy Halloween night. My reading was all about letting go - and even though it was a funny Halloween thing to do, I can't help but think that there could be some truth to letting go of all the stress, worry and obsession that comes with fertility and just doing it and then letting it go. So.....here we go again.
Thanks for reading!
Becky and Mike